Lion's Roar

The Lion's Roar celebrates the spirit of wakefulness wherever it appears - in the arts, relationships, politics, livelihood, popular culture, and all the challenges of modern life. It offers a Buddhist view for people of all spiritual traditions who are open, inquisitive, passionate and committed.

Lion’s Roar

MINDFULNESS: BIRTH OF A NEW CONTEMPLATIVE TRADITION

CHOLO DHARMA • SANATHAVIHARI BHIKKHU used to despise and avoid gangs. Now, he befriends gang members and tries to show them there are other, more skillful ways of living.

HER LIBERATION • Bhikkhuni Dhammawati Guruma broke through oppressive patriarchal barriers to pursue spiritual freedom. WENDY GARLING tells her inspiring story.

BOOKS IN BRIEF

AVOID BURNOUT WITH THE MIDDLE WAY • VALERIE BROWN on the importance of taking care of ourselves, while taking care of others.

THE GANDHI EXPERIMENT • PERRY GARFINKEL shares his bold attempt to live by Mahatma Gandhi’s principles in today’s complex world.

WHAT LIFE OR SPIRITUAL LESSON HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR KIDS?

MEDITATION FOR KIDS • Even young children can learn to tune into themselves and the world with curiosity and wonder. VANESSA ZUISEI GODDARD offers step-by-step instructions for teaching them.

Have Confidence in Who You Are • In this special section, three Buddhist teachers offer practices for cultivating self-assurance, self-compassion, and—ultimately—inner peace.

How to Take Your Seat • ETHAN NICHTERN on how mindfulness can help you trust yourself—to trust your decisions and your ability to navigate whatever arises.

Mindfulness Meditation for Cultivating Confidence

Be Confident in Your Buddhanature • The key to unshakable self-confidence, says LAMA DÖNDRUP DROLMA, is recognizing the deepest truth of who you are.

Nonself-Confidence • The superiority complex, the inferiority complex, and the equality complex are painful traps we fall into if we believe we have a separate self. SISTER BOI NGHIEM on transforming complexes into confidence and compassion.

Dying Can Teach You How to Live • It’s one thing to know that you will die one day and quite another to know that death is imminent. Three Buddhist practitioners on the life lessons they’ve learned from facing their mortality.

Our Precious Human Life & Death • TRUDY GOODMAN discovers that time is never wasted if we’re conscious and alive, aware and present.

I Won’t Fight Death to the Death • Most of us spend our lives doing everything we can to deny death, to turn a blind eye to it. CINDY LITTLEFAIR on acceptance.

IS FEAR OF DEATH THE ROOT CAUSE OF INJUSTICE?

Cancer Sensei • PAUL DAISUKE GOODMAN on what leukemia has taught him about ego, impermanence, and the incredible power of community.

The Power of Awareness • The founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction, JON KABAT-ZINN is considered the father of the American mindfulness movement. Here, he talks to editor-in-chief MELVIN MCLEOD about the essence of mindfulness and how it offers liberation from limiting, self-imposed narratives. This is the first installment of a three-part series.

How Does Karma Work? • Understanding karma can help you in your life and on the spiritual path. BARRY BOYCE and ANDY KARR explain.

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